COVENTRY CITY boss Chris Coleman has already ear-marked the cash from the sale of Jay Tabb and is waiting for replies on bids for two wingers.

The Sky Blues boss admits he is disappointed to lose the midfielder to Reading but insists there was little the club could do to keep him once he had made up his mind to leave, and now hopes to reinvest the £500,000 return on the 24-year-old.

“We got a good deal for Jay considering he would have gone for nothing in the summer and that money is going straight back into the pot,” he said.

“I would like to bring in two natural wingers, one for the right and one for the left, and we have made a couple of offers for players and are waiting to hear back.

“We are hoping to do it in this transfer window, but if not then we will endeavour to do it in the summer.

“I know the fans are desperate to see new players come in and we are trying, but as I have said before, we will not pay silly prices for players.”

Meanwhile, Coleman was keen to stress that Tabb’s departure had been on the cards for some time and that he and chairman Ray Ranson had tried to keep him.

“We never wanted to lose him,” he said, “and Jay knew from day one that we wanted to keep him. There had been a problem between his agent and the chairman, but that was on the agent’s part and was not the fault of the chairman, and that delayed things.

“But I also knew he was a bit homesick and wanted to move back down south so we decided we may as well cash in on him, and in the end we got a good deal for us and a good deal for him.”